With a new year come new financial challenges, resolutions, and investment risks. On this episode, FINRA’s Head of Investor Education shares insights on leveraging market trends and tools to achieve your money goals in 2025.
Leveraged and inverse funds, like all nearly all investments, are risky. Adequate disclosure of risks should be sufficient for individual investor protection. If regulators do not believe that investors understand the risks from the prospectus, then what does this say about efforts to protect investors in domains beyond these funds? Moreover, what risks are unique to these funds that regulators
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NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) requests comment on two proposed rules, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) Rules 2315 and 2350, which would require members to review
The FINRA/Nasdaq TRF1 experienced an issue today, Friday, December 1, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. ET through 9:23:22 a.m. ET. The FINRA/Nasdaq TRF was rejecting trade reports for a subset of firms, and the root cause was due to a misconfiguration on Nasdaq’s Post Trade Risk system. The configuration was an update to the Post Trade Risk system in preparation for ACT Risk Management service
Personally, I feel the $25,000 threshold is too high and should be lowered ever so slightly. How about $20,000. Risk mitigation tools exist and it’s up to the trader to learn how to use them properly. The 90-Day PDT ban rule should be reinstated. There should be no reason the little guy has to be punished indefinitely for taking an extra trade once.
Short selling, as a tool was intended to hit back at corporations that were found to be cooking the books. Unfortunately, today it is a tool with nefarious intention with no regard for the impact it might have have on an otherwise good company, it's entire employee base and downstream jobs it involves itself in. As one who has managed portfolios and also invests privately it has never been
The FINRA Board of Governors met recently in Washington, and I am pleased to share some updates. The Board approved:
1. T+0 settlement 2. Market Makers cannot be hedge funds. 3. Stock in hand rule ie short seller must have found and received stock before it can be shorted. 4. Public list of every entity which short sells a stock. 5. Maintenance requirement to short a stock to be cash only with zero marginable securities used as collateral. 6. Fine for Naked Short Selling enhanced to 1000% of stock's value
Please see below for comments in response to Regulatory Notice 22-08. Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback. Definition of complex should be objective- if use of derivatives is a criterion it should be applied to all funds that do so. This suggests that more useful criteria would focus on factors like maximum risk of loss, risk of the fund not being able to meet its stated objectives
